On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:50:45AM -0500, Edward Croft wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 09:29, Marcus Specht wrote: > > > What about adding an application to Fedora to automatically download and > > install the needed software (mp3-Support, java etc.) after the > > installation of fedora. Maybe after pressing some "I know what i am > > doing"tm buttons? > > This would be really helpful to some beginners without knowledge how to > > install the necessary packages.... > > This harkens back to the ease of use issue. Or as we like to say, the Grandma issue. > I just had to work with a Windows 2000 laptop. I went to a website that > required Flash, and guess what happened? It automatically downloaded and > installed the flash player and continued on playing. Easy enough for Grandma. > Knock Windows as much as you want, it is much easier to install software > for the common user. This is the drawback to Linux at this time. It is > definitely not ready for the common user, ie Grandma. Grandma is going to > find it hard to install java. Hey Grandma, just download the rpm and install, > then go into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and create a link to the plugin. [snip] I use linux so I do not have "ease of use" programs installing things without my input. This is something I wish to never see on any of my boxes. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx
